Ten proofs for secularism in Islamic jurisprudence
SOMEONE MIGHT ASK: is there any legal evidence in the Islamic religion supporting secularism? In my opinion there are ten…
Is Islam the faith closest to secularism?
ONE SUCH ACCUSATION Rashid al-Ghannouchi made in his book The Principles of Governance and Power in Islam, where he maintained…
The radicalism of Mahmoud Muhammad Taha
IN MY PERSONAL ESTIMATION, had Professor Mahmoud not been radical and true to his thoughts and writings, to his will…
Islam between fiqh and hadith – which comes first?
DISAGREEMENT AMONG the hadith narrators was a constant and at times reached the point of mutual insults and takfīr.[2] The…
Opening up ijtihād – opening up the mind – 2
FUNDAMENTALIST REVIVALISTS have been exaggerating and emphasizing their claims to the point that you now see and hear people who…
Opening up ijtihād – opening up the mind – 1
THE SCHOLARS OF THE PRINCIPLES of jurisprudence also made important efforts here to specify what the forms of analogy were…
The concept and pillars of renewal
IN MY CONCEPTION of renewal, I mean a new understanding of religion and its central role in life, a reconstruction…
Vatican II as a model for Islamic reform
THIS WAS THE TRANSFORMATION from a paradigm of the sovereignty of the divine intellect – predominating in the Middle Ages…
A backward Islam – Part 2
ASK THOSE CROWDS the same question: have you read the writings of Muḥammad Iqbal, one of the spiritual fathers of…
Is religious reform possible?
ALL SECULARISTS RAISING the issue of religious reform as a means to overturn the three decade-long domination of fundamentalism are…